We now go live on scene to... our drone?

Dan Pacheco is able to steer a small drone above a group of students with just a WiFi connection and his iPad. What the drone sees is projected onto a big screen in front of them.

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This is just a demonstration that Pecheco, the recently named chairman of Journalism Innovation at Syracuse University, is doing to show the potential newsgathering uses of drones, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

Pacheco stresses first there will be privacy - and ethical questions - that need to be answered.

"What’s the difference between a photographer going right up to someone’s face at a festival and taking a picture or a drone getting the same picture?" he asks. "It’s not fundamentally that different, it’s just one of them has wings."

Currently, the Federal Aviation Administration is developing guidelines for the commercial use of UAVs, which stretches beyond journalism, but any solid regulations are a few years away. The FAA estimates there could be upwards of 30,000 drones in U.S. skies by 2020.

In the meantime, Pacheco says it will take some adjustment as people get used to having drones flying above them at political rallies or other events. That will come he predicts.

The proliferation of drones raises concerns about privacy and what drones can and can't be used to film.

"There’s really no fundamental difference between you trespassing onto your neighbor’s property, pulling out your camera, getting up on your tippy toes, taking a picture of them coming out of the shower, or a drone flying over there and happening to get a picture of that," Pacheco says.

As part of a seminar series Pacheco has launched at the university, he's raffling off two drones just like his to students.